To commemorate 25 years of women competing in the NCAA Division I outdoor championships, the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association has selected a Silver Anniversary Team. Suzy Favor of Wisconsin and Seilala Sua of UCLA were recently named the NCAA Division I Most Outstanding Student-Athletes in track and field. Favor won five NCAA outdoor titles in the 800 and 1,500 meters at Wisconsin. Sua won six NCAA titles in the discus and shot put while at UCLA.

To complement the NCAA all-time selections, a panel of USTFCCCA coaches selected a Silver Anniversary Team following this year's NCAA meet in Sacramento.

Selection to the Silver Anniversary Team is based on performances at the NCAA Division I Women's Outdoor Track and Field Championships. The team consists of the outstanding individuals in each event as well as the top coach and most successful school over the past 25 years. The first combined NCAA Division I Men's and Women's Outdoor Track and Field Championships were held in 1982 at Brigham Young University. There's no question that the inclusion of women at the NCAA Championships had a beneficial effect both on the meet and on U.S. track in general.

In that spirit, the Silver Anniversary Team for NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field:

100 meters
Angela Williams, USC

It's often difficult for prep record-setters to meet expectations at the collegiate level, but Williams made a smooth transition. As a USC freshman in 1999, Williams won the NCAA title in a personal-best 11.04 seconds. She went on to win the 100-meter title three more times, making her one of only three female athletes to win the same individual event four straight years. (Suzy Favor in the 1,500 and Seilala Sua in the discus are the others.) No other woman has won more than two NCAA 100-meter titles.

Williams set a national high school record of 11.11 in 1998. In addition to her four NCAA titles in the 100, Williams ran the leadoff leg on USC's national champion sprint relay team in 2000. She competed in the 2001 and 2003 World Championships.

200 meters
Dawn Sowell, LSU

Sowell won just one NCAA title in the 200, but it was no ordinary win. At the 1989 NCAA Championships in Provo, Utah, Sowell won the 200 meters in a collegiate-record 22.04 seconds, shattering Merlene Ottey's meet record of 22.39 set in 1983. In the 17 years since Sowell's win, no NCAA winner has come within three-tenths of Sowell's time.

Sowell also won the 100 at the 1989 NCAA meet in a collegiate-record 10.78. She added a third collegiate record in the 400-meter relay, running the second leg on LSU's winning team that clocked 42.50.

400 meters
Suziann Reid, Texas

Reid is the only three-time women's 400 champion in NCAA history, winning national titles in 1996, 1998 and 1999. She finished second in 1997. Reid also ran on four straight NCAA championship teams in the 4 x 400 relay.

Jamaican-born, Reid moved to the United States at age 11. She represented the United States at the 2001 and 2005 World Track and Field Championships in the 4 x 400 relay.

800 meters
Joetta Clark, Tennessee

Today, Clark's status as one of the best female middle-distance runners in U.S. history is secure. Her winning ways started in the mid-1980s while a college student at Tennessee.

Clark won back-to-back NCAA titles in 1983-84. Four years after winning her second collegiate outdoor title, Clark qualified for the U.S. Olympic team. She wound up running in four Olympics.

In 2000, Joetta was joined on her final Olympic team in the 800 by sister Hazel and sister-in-law Jearl Miles-Clark.

1,500 meters
Suzy Favor, Wisconsin

Favor was a four-time NCAA champion in the metric mile for the Badgers. Favor's winning time of 4:08.26 in 1990 stood as the meet record for 13 years. Favor also won the 800 in 1990, defeating Harvard's Meredith Rainey in meet-record time of 1:59.11 that still stands.

Known by her married name of Suzy Hamilton during her post-collegiate career, she qualified for three Olympic teams (1992, 1996 and 2000) and claims the second-fastest 1,500 time in U.S. history (3:57.40).

3,000-meter steeplechase
Elizabeth Jackson, BYU

Since the steeplechase was added to the NCAA schedule in 2001, no athlete has won more than one title. Jackson won the first collegiate title awarded in this event, clocking a collegiate-record 9:49.73.

Jackson's title win was the first of three straight won by BYU women. Michaela Minova (2002) and Kassi Andersen (2003) followed in Jackson's footsteps.

5,000
Lauren Fleschman, Stanford

Fleschman won three straight national titles in the 5,000 for the Cardinal. In her final win, in 2003, she shattered the NCAA meet record, clocking 15:24.06.

Earlier in the 2003 outdoor season, at the Mt. SAC Relays, Fleshman set a collegiate record of 15:23.94. Prior to winning three straight NCAA titles in the 5,000, Fleshman finished fifth in the 1,500 as a Stanford freshman in 2000. As a post-collegian, Fleshman qualified for the U.S. World Championship teams in 2003 and 2005.

10,000
Amy Skieresz, Arizona

Skieresz dominated collegiate distance running in the late 1990s, winning a pair of NCAA doubles in the 5,000 and 10,000. At the 1997 NCAA meet in Indianapolis, Skieresz won the 10,000 in 33:14.22. The following year, in Buffalo, she won the national title in 33:04.12. Both times, she doubled back to win the 5,000. She also won the NCAA cross country title in 1996.

Skieresz, who retired from competition in 2000, is married to former Arkansas standout Ryan Wilson. Skieresz-Wilson joined the Arizona coaching staff in 2004 to assist James Li with the distance runners.

100 hurdles
Virginia Powell, USC

Powell ran her way on to the Silver Anniversary Team with a record- breaking performance at the 2006 NCAA Championships. She clocked 12.55 in the semifinals before streaking to a 12.48 victory in the final. It was Powell's second straight NCAA outdoor title. In 2005, she won a thrilling race against Nebraska's Priscilla Lopes, clocking 12.80 to her rival's 12.82.

In addition to her hurdle exploits, Powell won the 2006 Pac-10 title in the 100-meter dash and ran the leadoff leg on the USC sprint relay team that finished third at the NCAA meet in the school-record time of 42.96.

400 hurdles
Sheena Johnson, UCLA

Johnson pulled off the rare feat of setting collegiate records in successive NCAA meets, clocking 54.24 in 2003 and 53.54 in 2004. A three-time U.S. junior champion in the event, Johnson won the 2004 U.S. Olympic Trials in a meet-record 52.95 and finished fourth in the Olympic Games. Johnson also won a pair of Pac-10 championships in the 100 hurdles for UCLA.

400-meter relay
LSU

In the history of NCAA Division I women's track, no school has dominated an event the way LSU has dominated the 400-meter relay. The Lady Tigers have won more than half of the available NCAA titles in the event, finishing first 13 times.

LSU won its first NCAA title in 1985. From 1989 through 1997, the Lady Tigers won eight NCAA sprint relay championships. The 1989 foursome of Tananjalyn Stanley, Dawn Sowell, Cinnamon Sheffield and Esther Jones set a collegiate record of 42.50.

That mark was assisted by Provo, Utah's altitude, but LSU also holds the low-altitude collegiate record in the event, clocking 42.55 to win the NCAA title in 2003.

1,600-meter relay
Texas

Texas has won the 4 x 400 relay seven times at the NCAA Championships. The Longhorns won their first national title in 1989. They also won in 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2003 and 2005.

Suziann Reid, the Silver Anniversary performer in the open 400, ran on four of those NCAA championship teams (1996 to 1999).

Long jump
Sheila Echols, LSU

Echols won the 1987 NCAA title with a jump of 22 feet, 9_ inches, helping LSU win its first collegiate outdoor title. No other performer in the history of the NCAA meet has come within three inches of her 19- year-old meet record.

A fine sprinter, Echols ran on LSU's championship sprint relay team in 1985. She won an Olympic gold medal in 1988 as a member of the U.S. relay team in Barcelona. Echols also finished seventh in the Olympic long jump final in 1988.

Triple jump
Sheila Hudson, California

At the beginning of a long career in which she set numerous U.S. records and qualified for the 1996 Olympic team, Hudson won three NCAA titles (1987-88-90) for the Golden Bears.

Hudson won her third triple jump title with a meet-record mark of 46-0_. That jump remained the NCAA meet record until UCLA's Candice Baucham leaped 46-2 to win the 2005 collegiate title. Hudson also won the NCAA long jump in 1990. She is the only female athlete to win the long jump and triple jump at the same NCAA outdoor meet.

High jump
Amy Acuff, UCLA

Acuff won back-to-back NCAA titles in 1995 and 1996, setting a meet record of 6-5 in her first win. She still holds the meet record. A five-time U.S. champion in the event, Acuff represented the United States at the 1996, 2000 and 2004 Olympics. She placed fourth at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece. Acuff's lifetime best of 6-7 ranks her second on the all-time U.S. list.

Pole vault
Tracy O'Hara, UCLA

Since the women's pole vault was added to the NCAA Outdoor Championships in 1998, O'Hara is the only two-time winner. The San Diego native didn't take up the event until her senior year in high school, but she finished second in the NCAA outdoor meet as a UCLA freshman. In 2000, O'Hara's winning NCAA clearance of 14-5_ was a foot higher than the meet record coming in.

O'Hara won her second NCAA title in 2002. She competed in the World Championships in 2001 and 2005 and has a lifetime best of 15-1.

Shot put
Regina Cavanaugh, Rice

Cavanaugh won three straight NCAA championships in the shot put. Her winning marks from 1985 through 1987 were remarkably consistent - 56-7, 56-9 and 56-10. Cavanaugh also won three NCAA indoor titles in the shot put.

An outstanding student, Cavanaugh was inducted into the GTE Academia All-America Hall of Fame in 2000. She's now Dr. Regina Cavanaugh Murphy, a pediatric psychiatrist practicing in Killeen, Texas.

Discus
Seilala Sua, UCLA

Sua won the NCAA title as a UCLA freshman in 1997 and went on to win three more. She topped 200 feet in each of her victories, setting an NCAA meet record of 210-10 in 1999. Sua also won a pair of NCAA outdoor titles in the shot put. Her six individual titles is the most ever won by a woman in NCAA Division I outdoor competitition. Sua qualified for the U.S. Olympic team in 2000 and 2004. Sua won the 2004 Olympic Trials with a meet-record throw of 216-2.

Hammer
Dawn Ellerbe, South Carolina

Like Sheila Hudson in the triple jump, Ellerbe helped put her event on the U.S.track map. The South Carolina standout won the first NCAA hammer title in 1996, throwing 209-2. She successfully defending her crown in 1997 with a 207-4 effort.

When the women's hammer was added to the Olympic schedule in 2000, Ellerbe won the U.S. Olympic Trials and finished seventh at the Sydney Games.

Javelin
Valerie Tulloch, Rice

Tulloch was a three-time NCAA champion in the javelin. She won her first title as a Rice freshman in 1992 with a 191-2 effort. She won again in 1994 and 1995. The four-time All-American and three-time Southwest Conference champion still holds the Rice school record of 198-9, set at the 1995 Pan American Games while competing for her native Canada.

Heptathlon
Jackie Joyner, UCLA

Joyner's talent and determination manifested itself early in her college career at UCLA. At the 1982 NCAA Championships, she won the heptathlon title with a score of 6,099 points. She also ran a leg on UCLA's third-place sprint relay team and finished second in the long jump.

Along with current UCLA coach Jeanette Bolden and future sister-in-law Florence Griffith, Joyner led the Bruins to the first-ever NCAA women's outdoor track and field championship.

Joyner won the heptathlon again in 1983, improving to 6,390 points. She then embarked on a post-collegiate career that included - in the heptathlon alone - three world records, two Olympic gold medals and one Olympic silver medal. She is the only woman to score 7,000 points, and she did it three times, topped by her 1988 world record of 7,291.

Coach
Pat Henry, LSU

Henry led LSU to a dozen NCAA outdoor titles, including 10 in a row from 1988-97. No coach in the history of college track and field has ever won more team championships in a row.

In his 17 years at LSU (1988-2004), Henry led the Lady Tigers to 22 NCAA team championships - 12 outdoors and 10 indoors. LSU won 10 NCAA outdoor championships in the 400-meter relay during Henry's tenure, including six in a row from 1992 to 1997. Henry left LSU after the 2004 outdoor season to accept the head coaching position at Texas A&M. The Aggies finished 10th at this year's NCAA Outdoor Championships, the highest women's finish in school history.

School/program
Louisiana State University

Since 1982, LSU has won 13 national outdoor women's championships - more than three times as many titles as the next-closest school. Texas has won four outdoor titles.

It took six years for LSU to win its first NCAA women's title, but once the Tigers sunk their teeth into the championship, they didn't let go for more than a decade. LSU won 11 straight national championships from 1987- 97 and added two more in 2000 and 2003. The Tigers also finished second twice and have 19 top-10 finishes in 25 NCAA meets.

In 1989, LSU became the first track team in NCAA history to win the men's and women's Division I championships. LSU has won 46 NCAA women's individual and relay titles since 1982.